Its not realy a waste to throw the dead fish on the banks, beter there than selling to the fish markets.

Our rivers lack the nutrients of dead fish now due to overharvest. These fish are mostly hatchery fish anyways so if they dont spawn than good and if they end up gutted and thrown on the river banks than the rivers win anyways.

More dead fish in our rivers and beaches = more wild smolt.

Go to alaska on a Humpie year and you will see what I mean. two feet deep of dead humpies on all the river banks and beaches near river mouths. When is the last time you saw that down here. that is what it is suposed to be like.

So even if it seems like the indians are doing the wrong thing really they are helping wild fish production out even if it seems wrong.